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Two Monks and Two Nuns

In Tune's specially curated playlist, including music by seventeenth-century Italian nun Isabella Leonarda, and Ethiopian nun Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou. The sequence start with with some Christmas music thought to have been written by monks in a thirteenth-century Welsh priory.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 12 Dec 2018 19:00

Music Played

  • Anon (13th century English)

    Edi be thu

    Performer: Martin Best Ensemble.
    • Nimbus.
  • Adrien Le Roy

    Almande tournee

    Performer: Gordon Ferries.
    • Delphian.
  • Isabella Leonarda

    Ave regina coelorum

    Choir: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.
  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    The Jordan River Song

    • 脡thiopiques 21: Piano Solo.
    • Buda Musique.
    • 11.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Dora Schwarzberg. Performer: Lucy Hall. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Mischa Maisky.
    • Schumann: Chamber Works: Martha Argerich.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    This is the record of John

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Nico Muhly: Seeing is Believing.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schm眉cke dich, o liebe Seele (Cantata no.180)

    Choir: Concerto Vocale de Leipzig. Ensemble: Ensemble baroque de Limoges. Conductor: Christophe Coin.
    • Bach - Cantatas.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Richard Strauss

    Morgen, Op.27 No.4

    Singer: Anne Schwanewilms. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • R. Strauss: Don Juan, Lieder, Macbeth: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.

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  • Wed 12 Dec 2018 19:00

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